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Films that aged badly or downright stank...

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Terminator 1....T2 has a more modern faceless ageless feel to it that it will never age...but T1 has. but then again they didnt have a big budget so...idont know
 
marleyisalegend said:
Any old movie, considering how far graphics and imaging have come, it's a laugh to look at old movies. My boyfriend who's 30 going on 90 was watching one of the old Hulk movies and the special effects were so awful I fell off the bed laughing.
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there is one big exception to that....STAR WARS(the original trilogy). those visual effects have never looked fresh. ok...some of them.
 
Anything that was trying to be a 'trendsetter' tends to. Like Heathers, great film but tragically dated. I'm just hoping some hollywood fatcat doesn't decide to update dated classics
 
A bunch of 8-year-olds (including me) went to see a movie called Star Crash, starring newcomer David Hasselhoff. On the way home from the movie, we decided the movie was OK, since there were spaceships and robots and stuff in it. But the weird thing is - not ONE of us could remember a damn thing about it. Not the charcaters' names, not the plot, nothing. And I don't mean weeks later, I mean on the way home from the theater. We all totally blanked it out.

Never seen the movie since, but I've conisdered tracking it down just to see what the hell I actually saw. :)

Lex
 
The Exorcist and Love Story. Both were good when they came out, but to watch them now is agony, bad dialog, bad acting, bad special effects, just plain bad.
 
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I agree about "Blazing Saddles." I never understood the appeal. I love "Young Frankenstein" though.

One movie that everyone always refers to as a 'camp classic,' "Valley of the Dolls" is boring, bordering on unwatchable. There's only a couple decent 'so bad they're good' scenes, and the rest is just meandering dull melodrama. I've tried to watch it four times, and always end up stopping.

Francois Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" is another film. While not a bad film, I don't understand why its so highly praised. "The 400 Blows" and "Mississippi Mermaid" were great films, but "Jules and Jim" was boring, repetitive, and seemingly endless. But I sat through it, and now I'll never have to watch it again.

About special effects. I don't compare a film from the 60's special effects to that of a movie released in 2008. To do so is just stupid. Personally, I prefer films that used actual materials to do special effects, and not just computer technology. Movies like 'Spiderman,' 'King Kong,' and 'Narnia' are laughable cartoons compared to films from a couple decades ago.

And I'll ignore that Exorcist slam. Thats still one of the best horror movies ever made. Period.
 
Blazing Saddles as a whole has not held up as well as, say, Young Frankenstein or the original version of The Producers. But you gotta admit: Madeline Kahn as Lily Von Schtupp is fantastic. Especially with the singing... The fact that she's an operatic soprano makes the song ten times funnier.

Speaking of brooks films that aged poorly, Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I loved it when I was like 12, and now I realize that it sucks.
 
I do think that Rosemary's Baby is still good. (just a side note)
 
The original Bela Lugosi "Dracula" from 1931. It was based on the stage-play, and thats painfully obvious while watching the film. It is atmospheric and somewhat creepy, but on a whole its just very stiff. And the acting kind of sucks.
The Spanish language version of the same film is far superior to it.
And "Dracula's Daughter," the sequel, is really good.
 
Harke the Heretic said:
I've been rewatching fragments of old movies as I always do.
Movies that were far worse than I remembered were:

Superman III
Hellraiser (so many of the 80s horror stuff didn't age well at all)
My Own Private Idaho

What's your list?
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I think Superman III was bad the first time around, so I wouldn't want to revisit it and have it be even worse.

I liked My Own Private Idaho when it came out, and then I bought the Criterion Collection a couple years ago when it came out, and it still holds up for me.

A movie that I've gone back and forth on is Breakfast at Tiffany's. I first saw it maybe 25 years ago and loved it (Mickey Rooney's awful Asian stereotype aside). I then saw it several years later and it felt horribly dated, and I could barely sit through it. Then a few years ago I watched it again, and this time I liked it again. Go figure.

A movie I liked just fine when I first saw it was Top Gun. Then, about a year ago, I caught it on cable and it was painfully awful, and the story line horribly cliched. And while Tom Cruise's cockiness was sexy the first time around, now it was just obnoxious and arrogant.
 
beatleshead said:
Terminator 1....T2 has a more modern faceless ageless feel to it that it will never age...but T1 has. but then again they didnt have a big budget so...idont know
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T1 was SET in the mid 80s. Its not supposed to age well. Its always supposed to look like 1983/1984 because thats the point of that story!
 
Just about every James Bond film. They are still enjoyable to watch. But many of them are more funny now than they were originally intended.
 
The old batman movies with Val Kilmer and the other one with George Clooney. I saw them on tv the other night and they were way worse than I remembered. Even the 1st one sucked. The one with Catwoman and Penguin still pretty good though.
 
Another one from the 70's in this category is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I don't say it stank but it has aged badly in my opinion.
 
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